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Fun for families, including Rob Biddulph's Odd Dog Out (don't miss the Treasure Hunt for his drawings in the windows of Turnham Green Terrace W4, from September 10th to 16th: start at Trotters!). Plus two of the UK's best-known children's authors, Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Cressida Cowell, as well as Jonathan Meres (World of Norm), James Nicol (The Apprentice Witch) and The Really Big Pants Theatre Company. See our Children's Festival page.
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If you're enjoying ITV's Victoria, don't miss its writers, Daisy Goodwin and AN Wilson, talking about 'Victoria In Fact & Fiction' in the Festival's opening event. It's at 7pm on Thursday September 15th in the Burlington Pavilion at Chiswick House, which Victoria visited throughout her life. Tickets £10 in aid of reading charities. Book now.
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Make a long weekend of it! More than 80 speakers will be inspiring audiences on a wide range of topics, including history, politics and economics, fiction, crime, memoir, biography, food, wine and books for children. Read the full programme and buy tickets here.
Comedy: Andy Hamilton and Shappi Khorsandi will talk about their new novels, while the creators of the best-selling ‘Ladybirds for Grown-Ups’ series, Joel Morris and Jason Hazely, will preview their latest ‘How It Works’ books due out this Autumn. Andy Hamilton is interviewed by Mark Lawson at 7.30pm on Saturday September 17th. Tickets £10 in aid of reading charities. Book now. Access to most other sessions is by a Day Pass, price £12 (or £20 for the two-day Weekend Pass).
Crime: Jill Dawson and Sophie Hannah will debate who deserves the title the Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie or Patricia Highsmith, chaired by Colette McBeth. Plus 'From Page to Screen' with Paula Hawkins and SJ Watson. The film of The Girl on the Train will be released in October starring Emily Blunt. Can it replicate the box office success of Before I Go to Sleep, starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth? Chaired by Joe Haddow, producer of The Radio Two Book Club. 7pm on Friday September 16th in the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre at Arts Ed in Bath Road, W4. Tickets £10 in aid of reading charities. Book now.
History: 350 years after the Great Fire of London, historian Rebecca Rideal will remember 1666, a watershed year for England. The centenary of the Battle of the Somme will be marked by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, author of Somme: Into The Breach. Alison Weir will discuss Katherine of Aragon, the first in her Six Tudor Queens series. Novelists Jane Thynne and James MacManus will talk about Berlin in the fateful year 1939, on the eve of World War II, and Roger Hermiston and Sonia Purnell will look at the men and women who helped Churchill to victory. George Goodwin will discuss his life of Benjamin Franklin in London, a Radio 4 Book of the Week. And Daisy Goodwin and AN Wilson will talk about 'Victoria In Fact & Fiction' in the Festival's opening event at 7pm on Thursday September 15th at Chiswick House. Book here.
Food and wine: Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson will mark 40 years of the Pocket Book of Wine. In a Foodies Question Time, Lucy McDonald (The Crumbs Family Cookbook), is joined by Oliver Rowe (Food For All Seasons), Joanna Blythman (Swallow This), Masterchef 2014 champion Ping Coombes (Malaysia) and Great British Bake Off finalist Holly Bell (Recipes from a Normal Mum). And there’s a place on the food writing course at Leith’s School of Food and Wine to be won!
Other non-fiction highlights include: Worth Dying For: Flags, Tim Marshall’s follow-up to his bestseller Prisoners of Geography; a panel on Britain, Brexit and Beyond, with Hilary Benn MP, former shadow foreign secretary, Sonia Purnell (Boris) and parliamentary sketch writer John Crace; and Nina Stibbe and Cathy Rentzenbrink discussing what makes a great memoir with Sali Hughes.
Fiction: Victoria Hislop will talk to Jane Garvey of Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her new book, Cartes Postales from Greece; Janet Ellis will discuss her debut novel The Butcher’s Hook with two other hotly-acclaimed new writers, Joanna Cannon (The Trouble with Goats and Sheep) and Barney Norris (Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain). Santa Montefiore, Penny Parkes, Milly Johnson, Jane Costello and Juliet Ashton will take part in Books In The City: Girls on Tour, a relaxed event with a glass of bubbles for Saturday evening! And spy writer Charles Cumming will analyse what makes a great thriller with former Radio 4 Today producer Peter Hanington, whose first novel has received rave reviews, and Harry Parker, who turned his army experience in Afghanistan into a novel.
There's all this and much more at the 8th Chiswick Book Festival from September 15 to 19, 2016, in venues close to Turnham Green tube station on the District Line.
The Festival is a non-profit-making community event, raising money for reading-related charities and St Michael & All Angels Church, which organises the Festival. Over the past seven years it has donated over £50,000. This year, the Festival will support Doorstep Library, which brings the magic of reading into the homes of children in deprived parts of west London; RNIB Talking Books Service and Books for Children; and InterAct Stroke Support, which provides actors to read to stroke patients in hospital.
Read the full programme and buy tickets here. Admission to most sessions is by a Saturday or Sunday Day Pass (£12 per day or £20 for both days) or a Children’s Festival Pass (£5), with a separate charge for some keynote events.
You can follow updates and join in the conversation on Twitter @W4BookFest #ChiswickBookFest.
Make a long weekend of it! Book now!
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